Droid, Pre, and iPhone compared

Re:Droid, Pre, and iPhone compared by notauser on Thursday October 29, 2009 @05:45PM (#910987)

Sliding keyboards are nowhere near as good as BlackBerry style keyboards.

I had an E71 for a while and the reason I loved it was because the keyboard was _always there_. It was never a pain to pull it out, wait for the screen orientation to flip, enter, close again. You just typed away.

The comparison to the G1 or the N75 with pull out keyboards was huge. It just added a mental road block into every action.

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Re:Droid, Pre, and iPhone compared by nuclear_eclipse on Thursday October 29, 2009 @06:53PM (#911098)

The nice part IMO about the G1's slide-out keyboard is that you get the choice of both worlds: immediate on-screen keyboard for quick input needs, and a nice proper keyboard (plus full screen space) for bigger input fields. Blackberry keyboards are painfully cramped by comparison...

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Re:Droid, Pre, and iPhone compared by jkincaid on Thursday October 29, 2009 @05:59PM (#911018)

Oh, I have no doubt it isn't as good as the BlackBerry keyboard. But it might be a good enough compromise for people who want something that's sort of iPhone-like but need a physical keyboard.

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